It hurt my heart to read Dede’s piece “Please God, Let Me Be Fertile” and it was this line: “It didn’t help that anytime I asked people what they knew about uterine fibroids they were so ignorant” that really struck a chord with me. Fibroids are definitely a “been there, done that” experience for a good number of us African women, so why don’t we talk about them more? Why don’t we all know more about them? When I was …